Over the course of the past seven months I have dealt with the stress of a whole series of unfortunate events by eating pretty much anything that wasn’t nailed down. And I’ve gained about fifteen pounds since August. About a month ago, my application to run the Boston Marathon as a member of the Dana-Farber Marathon […]
Your Daily Dose
Closed Sundays
When I was a kid, my brother and I would go to Sunday school every Sunday morning. Then we’d come home, and every single week, without fail, my brother, my dad, and I would watch whatever Tarzan movie was on channel 5 on TV. Like the old black and white Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies. After […]
But doesn’t that take a LOT of time?
A couple days ago I wrote a post about how I’ve fallen in love with my bullet journal and the whole bullet journal system in general and a reader commented, I love it but doesn’t it take a LOT of time to set up? Well, sure. It did take some time to set up. But this […]
And the world continued to spin.
Yesterday I was sick. Sicker than I’ve been in a long time. To be honest, I’m not positive I was sick. I think it might have been exhaustion. Whatever it was, my body felt like it was shutting down. My legs and my back hurt so badly that I couldn’t stand up. I was so […]
Time to get back on track.
I had big plans for today. I had been counting down the hours until all the kids were back in school since, like… Saturday. I was going to work out early and then get a whole bunch of shiz done and get dinner ready early and have all my work done before swim practice so […]
The Fearless Child vs. The Anxious Child
If you recall, Number 4 said she wanted to learn how to knit for Christmas. When I wrote this post about that, the mom of one of my former swimmers sent me a message and offered to teach Number 4 to knit over Christmas vacation. Now I didn’t know this mom very well. The dad of […]
